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A hamstring injury is a very common injury especially in sports, and is often called as a "pulled hamstring".
The word "pulled muscles" is a pretty accurate description of how the muscle got injured/happened in the first place, which is the hamstring muscle was pulled or stretched beyond its maximum limits, and leads to hamstring muscle fiber tearing.
Severity is divided into 3 grades as below
Depending on how severe your pulled hamstring muscle injury is, you may see the range of symptoms as below:
There are various proposed risk factors which may play a role in hamstring injuries:
Kicking and executing abdominal strengthening exercises with straight legs have been identified as possible contributory causes of lordosis. The anatomical reason seems to be that the iliopsoas muscle group is primarily involved in kicking and straight leg raising or straight leg sit-up exercises and contributes to strengthening this muscle'. Therefore, it is possible that certain athletic activities and training methods which exacerbate postural defects may also predispose the player to injury.
During activities like running and kicking, hamstring will lengthen with concurrent hip flexion and knee extension, this lengthening may reach the mechanical limits of the muscle or lead to accumulation of microscopic muscle damage. There is a possibility that hamstring injuries may arise secondary to the potential uncoordinated contraction of biceps femoris muscle resulting from dual nerve supply.
Another debate is on hamstring variation in muscle architecture.Short head of biceps femoris(BFS) possess longer fascicles (which allow for greater muscle extensibility and reduce the risk of over lengthening during eccentric contraction) and a much smaller cross section area compared to Long head of biceps femoris (BFL). Whereas BFL presents with shorter fascicles compared to BFS which undergo repetitive over lengthening and accumulated muscle damage.
Excessive anterior pelvic tilt will place the hamstring muscle group at longer lengths and some studies proposed that this may increase risk of strain injury.
No matter what grade the injury is, physiotherapy intervention will begin with the RICER approach to all acute injuries:
RICER is basic but it's a very important basic that needs to be done right and immediately.
After the 72 hours of the RICER (early stage), and depending on the severity of your hamstring muscle injury, then we can start more active physiotherapy intervention, and this should be started as soon as possible.
Please be assured that we believe in little-to-no pain during physiotherapy, and though there may be some discomfort and fear, however, by starting active physiotherapy early, you will accelerate your recovery process by a lot.
Hamstring muscle injury physiotherapy may include:
Regular maintenance with deep tissue release and sports massage will improve the performance of the hamstring as well as decrease risks of recurrence of this injury (see more advantages of regular deep tissue release and sports massage here).
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